A set of aggressive lab monkeys infected with herpes and hepatitis C were shot to death after escaping a transport truck in ...

Documentary airing on TLC looks at couples who adopt baby capuchins as children. Oct. 2, 2009— -- Jesus and Carmen waited seven years, until they were financially stable, to adopt a newborn. But ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

A few years ago my wife and I were given a baby long-tailed macaque while living on a remote Pacific island. Reintroduction proved to be impossible, so we named him Gomez and incorporated him into our ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

This one is sure to put a smile on your face -- a team of Japanese researchers found that sleeping baby monkeys could shed light on the origins of laughter and smiles in humans. When either a chimp or ...

Watch how CUTIS the monkey deals with a persistent baby monkey who begs to go to the market. From adorable pleading eyes to ...

They look like ordinary baby rhesus macaques, but Hex, Roku and Chimero are the world's first chimeric monkeys, each with cells from the genomes of as many as six rhesus monkeys. Until now research on ...

When human and chimp infants are dozing, they sometimes show facial movements that resemble smiles. These facial expressions, called spontaneous smiles, are considered the evolutionary origin of real ...

Two of six spider monkeys illegally brought into California are shown above with their troopmates where they are now living at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. (U.S. Attorney's Office) A Texas man was busted ...